Mountains and seas have a home

Chapter 154

"Okay, expert. You always boss me around." Fu Zhong propped up a recumbent old tree and rolled over, stepping on the soft grass, "Let me see where the commander is... .oh, he's right here."

Ji Yao was talking with the captain of the execution team holding a map, and he took out a pen to draw circles on the map from time to time.Standing next to him was Professor Geng Shuming. The professor was wearing a gray-blue jacket with a hood hanging behind his back, and the sleeves were covered with yellow-brown dust.

"Chief." Fu Zhong walked over from behind, stood behind Ji Yao and called him softly, and glanced at the map in Ji Yao's hand, "What are you looking at? Is there something wrong with the map?"

It was only after Fu Zhong finished speaking that he realized that he didn't use an honorific title, but the people next to him didn't pay attention to this detail at all, including the captain of the executive team who stood aside, and didn't express any emotion.

Ji Yao seemed to be used to him not using the honorific address, so he turned around and said hello -- he seemed to only greet Fu Zhong on his own initiative, and his voice was gentle and warm.Fu Zhong was still standing behind him, only a few centimeters away, and could hear his breathing.

"We are looking at the topographic map to determine where we are going to go tonight." Ji Yao said, pointing at a certain place with his pen, "According to Professor Geng's suggestion, we chose to arrive at this river beach before sunset, and then go to the nearest Camp in the woods to rest."

Geng Shuming changed the pickaxe in his hand, stretched out his gloved hand to slide on the map screen, and added: "If the map is correct, there is a direct drinking water source under this area. I have seen the structure If you can save water, it’s mostly mineral water.”

"Of course, professor, it is good to have water, but how do we pump that water up? There is not much time left for us, and it is impossible to drill down and then suck up the groundwater."

"Then I don't know." Geng Shuming shrugged and raised his hand to pat the fine dust off his hair. "The specific situation is up to you to decide. But there is indeed water there, and there is a lot of it. I am a geologist , that's all I know."

Ji Yao nodded and thanked Geng Shuming.Professor Geng put on the other glove, turned to do his work with the pickaxe in hand, and his assistant was analyzing the soil samples at the workbench.Ji Yao asked the team leader to leave and turned off the electronic screen.

"What can I do for you?" Ji Yao asked, he checked his communication equipment, "It stands to reason that you should be on duty now."

Fu Zhong handed the walkie-talkie to Ji Yao, and said, "Expert Lin has discovered a new phenomenon, and I want you to go and have a look. It is said that a signal from the sea was detected, which is not normal."

Ji Yao put the walkie-talkie on his ears, answered a few words, and then returned to Fu Zhong: "I see, I have to go and have a look. Do you want to come with me? Forget it, you can follow me from now on, you are the assistant Decision makers, you have to follow me."

"The paperwork has just come down, and I still need to continue studying to be competent."

"It doesn't matter if it's earlier or later. You have to enter the command layer. You should have this ability. Learning is just a continuous process. Can't you learn from me? You have always been brought out by me."

Ji Yao walked in front and said that he lifted the branches in front of him that blocked his view. The Begonia was blooming at this time, stretching out thin and long branches and leaves. The flowers were small and malnourished, but they were very red.After hearing what he said, Fu Zhong didn't say anything, he smiled thinly, like a begonia blooming.

Fu Zhong crossed a ditch and asked: "Are we going to reach that river beach before sunset? Chief, think about it, if someone has been here before, will they make the same judgment as us, and then go there Stay on the river beach?"

"Why do you think so?" Ji Yao looked back at him, stretched out his hand, and let Fu Zhong use his strength to jump off a high ground.

"I can't say why, I just have a feeling. The complex is obviously human, so someone has been here. Maybe they took the same road we took, maybe like you , decided to stay overnight on the river beach."

Ji Yao paused, the Tang knife on his back gleamed in the shattered sunlight, but he didn't stop, and continued to walk forward: "It is indeed possible, you are not mistaken. We are walking The old road that others have walked, everything is pre-determined."

After speaking, he stopped suddenly, looked at the trunk of a birch tree next to him, and peeled away a thick layer of moss on the bark, revealing a mark carved by a knife underneath.It was carved so deeply that the mark was still clearly visible after all the years the birch had grown.

Ji Yao scratched along the outline of the mark with a dagger, and said lightly: "The KGB's usual method is birch mountain poplar. The next mark must appear on the aspen tree."

Fu Zhong gestured for the arrow engraved on the sign with his hand, and the arrow pointed firmly to the northwest: "The arrow is a road sign, and all the signs point to the northwest. Those people are going to the northwest. And our The destination is also in that direction."

He didn't stay too long, because Lin Cheng yelled again on the walkie-talkie.Fu Zhong crossed the stream on a piece of dead wood, and a flower snake crawled under the water.Ji Yao said in front: "Sure enough, we are following the old path of others."

"Chief, think about it again. Since these marks were left by the last group of people who arrived here, when did they leave the marks? You have to think about it. The only possibility is that they deliberately put them on the trunk when they returned. Engraved."

"The first time I arrived at this strange place, I definitely didn't engrave it when I went there. It doesn't make sense." Ji Yao said, he glanced at the aspen next to him, "So it can only be engraved when I go back. The problem is, Who are they engraved for?"

There was silence, the answer was self-evident, but no one wanted to say it.Fu Zhong felt a coolness rise from behind, just like the temperature in the woods when the moon just lit up.Someone had already expected that they would come here, and even left a sign to guide them.

When we arrived at the clearing, we finally got sunshine. This is a rare piece of grass in the forest, with white wildflowers growing half a person's height. Lin Cheng sat on an old tree and worked.There are executors patrolling around, most of them are already packing up their things and preparing to go on the road again.

"Expert Lin, I heard that you have made a new discovery." Ji Yao walked over to look at Lin Cheng's computer, "Signal from the sea? What does this mean?"

Lin Cheng took off the earphones, showed Ji Yao the computer, and jumped off the tree to fiddle with the heavy boxes a few times.He turned the signal receiver in several directions, then patted the ashes on his pants, pointed to a signal tape on the computer and said to Ji Yao: "Did you see it, this is it. The content is very simple, it is the word orange, every It launches once every two seconds. Look here again, it is the location of the signal source, which has flown out of the mainland and is below the surface of the sea.”

Fu Zhong leaned on the branch and looked at it for a while, then asked, "How deep is it below the sea surface? On the bottom of the sea? Or on the continental slope? Or on the offshore continental shelf?"

"Why do you always have so many questions, Seventh Brother? I can't detect the specific depth. If I measure the depth, will I still be like this ball? The signal from the sea is very stable, much more stable than the land. It was detected, indicating that it was launched just now."

"Who just turned on the transmitter in the sea, and then sent out this signal, which happened to be received by us?" Ji Yao said, "Don't you think there is a problem here? Now, at this moment, who is Below the surface of the sea, watching us quietly?"

Lin Cheng shivered, his hands and feet were cold, and he rubbed himself to warm himself up with great difficulty.A blue butterfly flew over, stayed on a white flower for three seconds, and lingered in the grass again.

"Are any of us in the sea?"

"What a fart, our guys are all here, and some are on the coordinator."

"Okay, we have to think about who is in the sea and what he wants to do." Lin Cheng said, while he quickly put the box together, the box was closed together strangely, shrunk to the size of a small box, "We Be on guard. See those forts on the mountain? Those are used to deal with things in the sea. We don't know what's in the sea."

"Naturally, experts, you don't have to worry about this. You write this discovery into a report and send it to the public system. This is important information, and everyone needs to know it. In addition, we all have to think about it. Where is the biggest problem here? .”

Ji Yao walked back into the team and brushed his hair irritably. Fu Zhong was gesturing on the other side and asking an executive about the weapon system.Ji Yao narrowed his eyes.

A person wearing a gray-blue assault jacket walked by, Ji Yao thought it was Geng Shuming, and was about to speak, but saw a beautiful boy with blond hair and blue eyes, his skin was so white that it almost glowed.It turned out to be Linnai Dawn, who just landed this morning and followed them to the "new place".

"Commander, are you okay? You look a little anxious, do you need help?" Dawn said, with a medical kit on his back and a medical specialist sign on his chest.

Dawn learned about Ji Yao's situation through Zhu Min's mouth, and after signing the confidentiality certificate, Ji Yao agreed to Dawn's mission as an army doctor.

"I'm fine." Ji Yao didn't get too close to Dawn, he replied flatly, put on his hat, and walked to the front with a gun, "It's time, Doctor Dawn. We should be on our way."

Sandie went to the second basement of the mansion again, he said he was going there to see his body.Bai Zhu opened the door for him, and behind him was a white room with light tubes embedded under the floor, and the entire floor was shining with white light.

There is a dormant capsule parked in the room, various instruments are connected to the top, and all necessary data are displayed on the screen.Sancha leaned down next to the dormant cabin, and looked at himself lying in it through the glass. He saw his face, eyes closed, with a stable expression.

"Time freezing technology." Bai Zhu said, she put her hands together, and stood in front of the console to look at the monitoring data on the display screen, "The time in the cabin is static, which can ensure that the flesh will not rot. Don't worry, Mr. Ambassador, your The body will always be preserved like this.”

There were three stacks of glass covers, his eyes did not leave his face in the cabin, but his face was expressionless, looking a little flat: "This kind of dormant cabin is also the result of your husband's research?"

"Yes, sir. But what you said is not accurate. This should be a joint research result between the family." Bai Zhu replied, "We have invested a lot of manpower and material resources, including financial resources."

"Can you freeze time, just like this, select a specific space, and then accurately stop the time in this space? It has strong selectivity, precision, and no flaws."

Bai Zhu smiled slightly, and it could be seen that she was very satisfied with the results of this research: "Yes, sir, what you said is not bad at all. We have achieved precise freezing, and we can choose a certain segment to change the time at will. Faster, slower, whatever you want."

Sandie raised her eyebrows, stood up straight, and said, "Sounds very good, holding time in the palm of your hand must be very fulfilling."

"That's not enough. We haven't advanced to the point where we can fully control time." Bai Zhu shook his head, as if sighing, "There is something above time, but we haven't fully controlled it. Human beings are groping, and It takes a long time."

"That can only bless you to explore to the end as soon as possible."

"I accept your good words."

At 23:45 in the evening, Bai Zhu entered the laboratory on the third basement floor from another elevator, which is the lowest floor of the mansion.Below is the explosion-proof bunker, which can resist nuclear explosions.Bai Zhu met Qi Mingli who came out of the laboratory outside, and shook hands with him.

"How's the situation, professor?" Bai Zhu asked, she glanced inside, the door of the laboratory was closed, and through the glass, she could see a lot of huge machines inside, with a tunnel cabin in the middle, similar to a particle accelerator.

Qi Mingli took off his gloves, poured himself a glass of water, and said, "It's not very good, it's a bit tricky. This kind of injury is really difficult to deal with. If consciousness still exists, then consciousness transfer surgery can be performed, but it can be done now." It doesn't work. That's a problem."

Bai Zhu was silent for a while, standing outside the door, he saw many people busy inside: "I don't care what method you use, I just want the final result. Professor, you know why I invited you here, you But the most authoritative expert in academia."

Qi Mingli knew the meaning of Bai Zhu's words.Before coming here, the Bai family gave him a lot of money, twice as much as all previous bonuses combined.It is understandable that Qi Mingli lived for more than half of his life by using people's money to eliminate disasters for others.

"I understand, ma'am. I understand."

The corners of Bai Zhu's mouth were smiling, but his eyes were not smiling.She stood in front of the glass door, looking sideways at the scene inside, with a yellow warning sign on the door beside her.She stepped aside, took her hand out of her pocket, and held a shiny black gun.

"The underworld has the rules of the underworld." She put the gun lightly on the table and made a slight sound. "Since the professor is willing to deal with us, he must abide by the rules."

Qi Mingli smiled while holding the water glass, but didn't speak.Bai Zhu looked at the gun on the table, stroked the back of his hand, and then pointed to his temple: "I only need what's inside, memory, as long as I get Gu Zhou's memory, then everything will be solved."

"But we are still unable to obtain the memory of an inanimate body, which I can't do."

Bai Zhu knew he would say that, so she wasn't surprised. She narrowed her eyes with a half-smile and said, "Before you, I invited many experts. But they were all mobs, and they were far less than professors with your skills." , so I sent them all to Marx for research.”

His voice was faint, floating like snow outside, not commensurate with the content of the words.Bai Zhu is very indifferent to everything. After killing someone, she can usually wipe the blood off her hands calmly, and then do some free things.

"It turns out that my wife can also say compliments." Qi Mingli smiled, "I have been forced by the underworld for most of my life, forcing me to research so many theories. Is this a good thing? Is it? I don't understand."

Bai Zhu didn't answer him.

"There are two ways, one is transformation, the mechanical resurrection method. Professor, I know that you have worked for the Tang family before, and you performed a transformation operation on Tang Ji, and the operation was very successful. But unfortunately, the Bai family and Tang Family is an enemy, and there are no equals." Bai Zhu said, and she looked into Qi Mingli's eyes, "It is because you resurrected Tang Ji that you gave him the time to murder my son. Professor, you are also at fault for this matter. You are a Smart people should understand what I mean."

Bai Zhu's lips were painted with berry-colored lipstick, sharp and crisp, plump and bright.The wrinkles on her face were also tight, her long eyebrows drooped, she was harsh and serious.

Qi Mingli knew that he was the one being threatened. He was just a scientific research expert, and he couldn't beat the Tang family, let alone the Bai family.

"The second method is to invent a new technology that can directly extract the memory of inanimate objects, reorganize, modify, and re-implant the memory. This will be a great invention, and you, Professor Qi Mingli , and leave a name in history."

"According to your good words, there will be such a day."

"There will be a day when the development of science and technology is always driven by one problem after another and practical needs. Isn't it, professor?" Bai Zhu walked a few steps while talking, and his heels made noises, "In a few days there will be Another body is brought in, but that's none of your business."

At 00:32 in the evening, Bai Zhu went up from the third basement floor, and the lights in the mansion were still on.Bai Zhu stood at the window of the hall with the stove in his arms and looked out. The snow did not stop, and the distant mountains became transparent, like the blurred edge of a watercolor painting.The plum blossoms are still in bloom.

"Is there someone in the hot spring?" Bai Zhu asked the steward next to him, who was bowing down to straighten the wooden frames and potted plants in the living room, "The lights are on, and the water is moving. Does the mansion's hot spring usually accept individual guests?"

The steward wiped the dust off his gloves, and replied in a steady tone: "The hot springs in the mansion are not open to the public, they are for private use. Only a part of the mansion is open, which is the back mountain area of ​​the villa. Spring and summer are peak seasons, autumn and winter are the peak seasons. There are fewer people and it is more deserted.”

Bai Zhu nodded, she saw several snow-capped peaks in the back mountain, covered with heavy snow, like a crane, it seemed that they were about to fly away in a blink of an eye.Bai Zhu asked again if there was anyone in the hot spring, and the steward replied, "It's a girl from the Tang family. She's used to soaking in the hot spring at night."

"It's the same day and night, what's the difference." Bai Zhu looked at the dark sky, walked out of the hall with the stove in his arms, and stepped down the slippery steps, "The plum blossoms are in bloom, and it's snowing again. look."

As she spoke, she walked to the edge of the hot spring, where there were rugged strange rocks, covered with scale-like patterns, and the plum tree was planted in the cracks between the rocks.Someone was bathing in the water, his shoulders were buried under the water, and his back was blurred by the steaming heat.

Bai Zhu walked over, she didn't make a sound, her reflection appeared on the rippling water, especially the berry-colored lips, which were particularly vivid and three-dimensional.When the bather saw a strange face suddenly appearing, he was startled, shrank nervously, and looked back at Bai Zhu.

"I'm Bai Zhu, you can call me Mrs. Bai." Bai Zhu lowered his eyes to look at Tang Chu, and raised his lips, looking gentle and calm, "You are the girl from the Tang family? It's a great honor to meet you for the first time."

Tang Chu bit his lower lip, tensed his neck and stared at Bai Zhu's face without saying a word.Bai Zhu noticed some small scars and even bruises on Tang Chu's face, and there were also criss-cross scabs on her arms, obviously showing traces of being strangled by a rope.

"Why don't girls say hello to anyone they meet? We are a family." Bai Zhu held the stove, stroked a layer of sable wool covering it, and squatted down, "The people of the Tang family shouldn't be so unruly."

"Who is in your family?" Tang Chu said, his voice hoarse and rustling, like a bellows pumping, "It's changed to a new skin and still looks the same, you and Tang Lin are mixed together, and the atmosphere is smoky. Do you think How about it? Are you going to take my life? Don't even think about it."

Bai Zhu froze for a moment, she was very angry at first, but suddenly this anger was replaced by a kind of funny.She lifted the corners of her mouth and smiled, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes gathered together: "No, did the girl misunderstand me? I am Bai Zhu, a member of Kunpeng's sect, the wife of the Bai family. I will not get involved with Tang Lin, everyone knows that , we are not all the way."

"Then why are you here?"

"My father is the new Lord Zanying. Of course I will be here. The mansion belongs to my family's property now. Is there any problem for me to appear here?" Bai Zhu looked into Tang Chu's eyes in amazement. The question is difficult to understand, "I should ask you this question, right? Why are you here? On vacation? The Bai family hasn't allowed it yet."

"You're not too young, so there's no need to play dumb. Don't you know that Tang Lin sent me here? Maybe that's your idea. Isn't that how families are? I know."

Bai Zhu narrowed her eyes, which was a sign of her anger.But her expression was still calm, and she raised her hand towards Tang Chu's face, but Tang Chu avoided it abruptly.Bai Zhu slanted his shoulders, twisted his fingers, and said, "Are you afraid of me? Or, are you afraid of Tang Lin?"

"I just don't want others to touch me." Tang Chu clenched her fingers, and she walked along the rocks on the shore to the stone steps on the other side, "I have nothing to fear, I'm already 30 years old, and I've been imprisoned for ten years .Sooner or later, before my brother is executed, or after. I can expect death, and I have nothing to fear."

Bai Zhu stood up and followed Tang Chu's direction of walking along the shore, brushing past plum blossom trees one after another: "Your brother? Which one is your brother?"

Tang Chu sneered, and replied, "I only have one older brother. I always have."

"What's the matter with the scars on your body?" Bai Zhu said, she stopped to smell the plum blossom branches, "Did Tang Lin not only imprison you, but also lynched you? The Tang family really has no rules. Vile means. He deserves to be flayed and killed."

After the sound of splashing water, Tang Chu came up from the hot spring, and the bruises on her body became more obvious.Bai Zhu could tell at a glance, electric batons, waterboarding, drug injection... all traces could be found.She watched Tang Chu calmly put on his robe and tighten his belt.

Her movements have a kind of legacy of aristocratic families, the kind of nobility that permeates from the bones, even though she is thin and bony, she can still compare to a crane after wearing a robe.Bai Zhu knew what it was, they were all women, and as a descendant of a family, she understood that kind of temperament.

Hearing Bai Zhu's words, Tang Chu picked up the basket of clothes next to him, stepped on the cold stone slab with his bare feet, and said, "I will tell Tang Lin what you said. If you really hate him so much, I hope you I can do what I say.”

After she finished speaking, she smiled and walked up the wooden bridge leading to the porch of the villa with the hem of her robe on her arm.Bai Zhu stood at the bridge and called her name, and asked, "You have been imprisoned for ten years, have you never gone out?"

"I'm under surveillance, and I haven't traveled too far." Tang Chu said, "All I know about this world comes from books and TV. At least Tang Lin has never neglected to meet my reading requirements. .”

"What book did you study the most?"

"I study everything, but what fascinates me the most is law."

Bai Zhu smiled, and she was standing on the other side of the bridge, next to a landscape lamp, which was dim and only half of her face was illuminated: "Then do you expect to apply the legal knowledge you have learned to practice?" Woolen cloth?"

"Of course, I dream of bringing you villains to justice. How to legally kill a person with clues is something you have to think about. Imprisonment, execution, or direct shooting are too low-level."

"We will become allies." Bai Zhu said, "I will fulfill your wish."

Tang Chu looked back at Bai Zhu, tilted his head, and said in a sarcasm, "Now I kind of believe that you and Tang Lin are really enemies."

After she finished speaking, she turned her head and walked down the bridge, through a corridor lit with warm yellow lights, and disappeared up the stairs on the other side.Bai Zhu returned to the hall from another corridor. She made a phone call and asked someone to investigate Tang Chu's files.